http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/u-s-oil-boom-creating-jobs-and-curbing-emissions-in-contrast-to-restrained-canadian-energy-policy

Recall that the USA has led the world in natural gas production since 2009, and in petroleum production since 2013. That’s while reducing emissions, sparking a manufacturing renaissance, and creating jobs.

Do you have an organization like the SPCA? That might we worth looking into?

Yes, I’d agree on the fish. The video generally does not show in what the ‘saving ‘consisted anyway. Still a very nice and heartwarming video.
Some reflections though, do we save our sheep from becoming chops?
Our relationship with other animals is deeply schizophrenic in the best of cases.
Recommended: some we love, some we hate and some we eat. (eg cats, rats and piglets)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6953508-some-we-love-some-we-hate-some-we-eat

I beg to disagree. Those fact-checkers take their job seriously. I know some of them (Africa Check) and they come from rather different political backgrounds. These people are dedicated to their fact-checking, it is their life, bread and pride. A ‘wrong’ check would reflect extremely negatively on them. It is their worst case scenario.
Note, it might happen that they ‘fact-check’ wrongly, but it is excessively rare, for the reasons pointed out above.
If it appears that they are kinda anti-rightwing (which overall they are not) in the present US, it is because Mr Trump is such a systematic, habitual liar. That tends to skew their results somewhat, not of their intent, but just because it is so.

Those numbers are all donations since 1989
If we go to 2016 donors the picture is slightly different.
1 Fahr LLC $90,626,606 100% Dem
2 Renaissance Technologies $59,265,461 57% Dem 43% Rep
3 Las Vegas Sands $44,342,166 100% Rep
4 Paloma Partners $41,946,500 100% Dem
5 Service Employ Internat Union $39,308,474 100% Dem
6 Adelson Drug Clinic $38,847,300 100% Rep
for the top 6

1 Adelson, Sheldon G. & al $3,282,800 100% Rep
2 Eychaner, Fred $2,462,39 100% Dem
3 Pritzker, James R. & al $2,363,100 100% Dem
4 Sussman, S. Donald $2,018,000 100% Dem
5 Singer, Paul E. $1,967,200 100% Rep
6 Griffin, Kenneth C. & $1,842,050 100% Rep
7 Wright, Karen A. $1,718,874 100% Rep

For the top 7, and yes 8 is also Rep

This gives us a more balanced view, ne?

Too true.

Likewise for most other first ladies — Hillary, Jackie, Mamie, Eleanor, and the rest — as well as Ethel, Joan, and countless political spouses everywhere from time immemorial.

Well, I do not forget that, and would agree to a large degree. The ‘West’ as a whole has quite a bit of butter on it’s head there indeed. However, even without the US, many countries are perfectly capable of creating their own ‘shitholes’. It is not just the US or the ‘West’.

Nice selection of tweets today. Thanks.

People have had a few problems like that. Often it’s something to do with not confirming the subscription because it went into the spam folder and was missed. Sometimes unsubscribing from comments can unsubscribe you from the site too. I don’t know what the delay is about though. It’s not one I’ve heard before.

Could you make a spare black cat out of Theo’s fur, or is he tidier? 😀